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Notre-Dame Cathedral is a tourist attraction in luxembourg which is the Roman Catholic cathedral of Luxembourg City. It was originally a Jesuit church, and its cornerstone was laid in 1613 and 1621. This magnificent Gothic cathedral houses the royal family vault and the large sarchophagus of John the Blind as a well as a notable treasury. The treasury can be viewed only on request. The church is a noteworthy example of late gothic architecture; however, it also has many Renaissance elements and adornments. At the end of the 18th |
century, the church received the miraculous image of the Maria Consolatrix Afflictorum, the patron saint of both the city and the nation.
The charming annual Octave of Our Lady of Luxembourg takes place here every year on the fifth Sunday after Easter. Thousands of pilgrims gather to pray to the miraculous statue of the Holy Virgin for protection. They then form a procession to carry the statue from the cathedral through the streets to an altar covered in flowers in the Avenue de la Porte Neuve. The cathedral was expanded and enlarged from 1935 to 1938.
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